In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.
It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.
Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.
I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.
But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.
Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to me to go into the stories that not everybody wants to tell.
What is familiar tends to become a value.